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Repainting/Maintaining Current Bike Lanes

I am concerned about the condition of bike lanes in the Lakeview and Lincoln Park neighborhoods. Many of the existing lanes need to be repainted, and it's not always clear how to alert the city about these matters.

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Permalink Reply by Skip Montanaro 0mi on August 23, 2013 at 11:19am

I think 311 is the correct way to do this.  There is probably also a web page for it.

The bike lane(s) on Elston are also pretty faded in places.

Permalink Reply by Skip Montanaro 0mi on August 23, 2013 at 1:03pm

When they repaint, I think the basic bike icons should be replaced with this:

Permalink Reply by Shaun Jacobsen on August 23, 2013 at 1:10pm

I rode on Halsted thru Lincoln Park last night and it was terrible. Lane condition in the tweet:

https://twitter.com/transitized/status/370740856824684544

Permalink Reply by Davo on August 23, 2013 at 1:29pm

I've seen worse. try wells south bound

Permalink Reply by Adam Herstein on August 23, 2013 at 1:53pm

Contact your alderman.

Permalink Reply by JeffB on August 23, 2013 at 2:09pm

The Roosevelt St bridge desperately needs restriping

Permalink Reply by pceasy on August 23, 2013 at 6:25pm

Clark is a nice street with bike lanes and 1 lane for cars on either side until you get to the Chicago History Museum where the road opens up to 2 lanes for cars and the bike lanes are no where to be found. Are there really bike lanes or did they fade away? I cannot tell. 

Permalink Reply by Tom Z on August 24, 2013 at 10:22pm

I hear you... The Milwaukee Ave bike lane on the NW Side is in very faded condition. It badly needs fresh paint.

I may try to report it with my SeeClickFix app on my phone and see what happens.

Permalink Reply by Adam Herstein on August 25, 2013 at 12:28am
Broadway doesn't have a bike lane…

James L. Zychowicz said:

Well, Broadway from Diversey to Addison is non-existent, and it's _dangerous_! I had to stop when a driver opened her door as I approached, and she yelled at me! "Other people are on the road," she screamed. I don't know if a clearly painted bike lane would have changed her, but it couldn't hurt!

Permalink Reply by Adam Herstein on August 25, 2013 at 12:36am
Agreed, but I ride down Broadway in Lake View frequently and rarely have a problem. I always take the lane and the worst thing that happens is people honk at me. I'm not sure the street is wide enough for bike lanes, but car traffic generally moves pretty slowly due to the density of the neighborhood, so it's not too bad to ride on.

James L. Zychowicz said:

Well, it definitely needs it -- it's not very safe as it is.

Permalink Reply by Tom Dworzanski on August 25, 2013 at 9:10am
Lawrence Ave has long stretches where the lanes have totally faded away.

The city should realize that if they installed more protected lanes with physical barriers they would have to repaint less.
Permalink Reply by Skip Montanaro 0mi on August 25, 2013 at 9:37am



Tom Dworzanski said:

The city should realize that if they installed more protected lanes with physical barriers they would have to repaint less.
Or did a better job of keeping cars out of the existing lanes. :-)

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